Revelation 16:10-11 "And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, And blasphemed the G-d of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds." (KJV)
Darkness falls on the kingdom of the Anti-Messiah. The people gnaw their tongues from pain. It must be sever pain they experience. This is probably from the ulcers of the first bowl and the scorching pain of the fourth bowl not to mention lack of something to drink. The food supply must be about gone too so this could be from hunger. Not to mention the obvious lack of heat due to no sunshine. The world would be thrown in to a deep freeze.
Revelation 16:12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. (KJV)
The Euphrates River dries up to allow the armies of the east to invade Israel.
Revelation 16:13-16 "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of G-d Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." (KJV)
Vision of 3 frogs: These are unclean spirits coming from the infernal trinity. These spirits are used to gather the armies of the earth together at the battle of that "Great day of G-d Almighty" (See Joel 3 and Zechariah 12-14)
Armageddon in Hebrew is Harmageddon (har-mag-ed-dohn) means the Hill of Megiddo. The armies of the earth gather together in the Valley of Jezreel below the Hill of Megiddo in northern Israel. This valley has hosted countless battles through out the Bible. It is also know as the Valley of Jehoshaphat.
Revelation 16:17-21 "And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before G-d, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed G-d because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great." (KJV)
A voice from the temple in heaven says, "It is done" The last plague is poured out on mankind.
The voices, thunders, and lightning indicate judgment.
A great earthquake occurs so intense that the mountains are not found Could it be that this is because of volcanic eruptions?
Islands fled away Could this be from Tsunami's caused by the earthquakes?
The "great city" Jerusalem is split in three. The cities of the nations will fall. The city of Babylon (the Anti-Messiah's capital) will be destroyed too. (We will be discussing Babylon in great detail in the next 2 chapters.) Babylon was remembered by G-d. This is where the meaning of the verse helps. The sixteenth letter is "Ayin" meaning eye; spiritual insight. Babylon goes back to the tower of Babel and the reign of Nimrod.
Hail falls from heaven weighing about 100 pounds. The people blaspheme G-d because of the plague of hail.
This is mind-boggling! There will be no place to hide. It will not be safe to be inside any buildings because of the earthquakes. That is if there are any buildings left. It will not be safe to be outside because of the 100-pound hailstones. Caves won't be safe because of the earthquakes. The air would be hard to breath because of the volcanic ash, etc from any earthquakes that started. This is going to be HELL on earth! There will be many people killed at this time.
Matt 24:22 "And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." (KJV)
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